- Date
- April 12, 1993, 07:10 local (11:10 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 1 uninjured; on the ground: 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N65484Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 17, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930412009069A
- Case key
- 33252
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Probable cause
Visual lookout not maintained by the pilot-in-command while taxiing the airplane. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the driver of the vehicle to advise the ground controller that he had stopped the vehicle on the taxiway.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The driver of an airport operations vehicle was cleared by the ground controller to the apch end of rwy 25 via taxiway 'a' but stopped the vehicle on the taxiway, to catch an animal without advising the controller. The plt of N65484 who was performing the before takeoff checklist while taxiing observed the parked vehicle too late to stop. The acft collided with the vehicle.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65484
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281581
- Airframe hours
- 6,465
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Orlando Aero Club, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Orlando Aero Club, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 17, 1992 · 263 hours before
- Departed
- ORL
- Destination
- CRG · Jacksonville, FL
- Airport
- ORL · Orlando Executive
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 26
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 422 total · 105 in this make and model · 360 as pilot in command · 94 in the last 90 days · 56 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 2 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N65484 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.